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Mendacity vs. Mendicity
Mendacity
/menˈdæsəti/Examples:
She had a knack for spotting his mendacity in meetings.Politics often involves a level of mendacity, he noted.Her mendacity was apparent in every false promise she made.
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Mendicity
/ˈmendəkənt/Examples:
The city's mendicity rate soared after the economic collapse.Charities struggle to address the persistence of mendicity.Efforts to curb mendicity include job training programs.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Mendacity is related to lying, while mendicity is related to begging.
- Remember mendacity with mendacious which also means untruthful.
- Mendicity sounds like mendicant, which is a person who begs.
- Mendacity and lie both contain e, whereas mendicity has c like coin, something a beggar might ask for.
- Think of mendacity linked with deception in conversations, and mendicity linked with requesting in streets.
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